Perhaps someone on here can explain how to reply to a message quoting the

old message<<

Harley wrote:

Every email program does it a bit differently, but I can give you two
ways... One for Outlook Express, and one that works with ANY Windows email
or text program.

With Outlook Express, Click on "Tools" in the menu bar, then "Options", then
select the "Send" tab...choose "Send Message In Reply" and "OK" back out of
it. From then on, everytime you click on reply, the message you're replying
to is copied into the reply.

Or, you can do as I do...and this should work in any Windows based email
program as it makes use of a Windows function and is not specific to the
program...it also works in any text program, and can be used to copy text
into email, too...

I don't like to copy the entire message, just the points I am commenting to
(as I did when I started this reply).  To do this, highlight the sentence
you want to repeat, and either type Ctrl-c, or select Edit>Copy from the
menu bar...they are the same thing.

Click on reply, and then type Ctrl-V...this will put the sentence you copied
into the message body (be sure the cursor is there first).  I add the ">>
<<" signs to offset the original sentence from my comment.

If you want to copy the whole message, instead of highlighting the text, put
the cursor anywhere in the body of the message, and type Ctrl-A...that
highlights the entire thing.  Then go to the reply, place the cursor and
type Ctrl-V...the entire message will be copied into the reply. You'll still
have to set it off some way with "> <" or something...setting the program's
options to do it automatically adds the "> <"

It's a bit more work, but I don't think people really appreciate wading
through everything they've already read to see my one line comment...so I
eliminate the items that aren't pertinant to my comment.

Harley

 
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